Lead on Purpose

JULY 7, 2009

July’s Leadership Carnivals brings together links to more than 25 fresh posts on topics such as accountability, talent management and succession planning. Jim Holland’s guest post Leadership Lessons from a Kindergarten Class is the focus. You’ll find posts from great bloggers such as Wally Bock and Chris Young.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

To secure your little corner of the recovery, you’ll need to be at the right place with the right business plan. If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. With the highest per capita spending across all industries, Washington, D.C.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 5, 2010

Things do not always go as planned. Gaining it requires determination and a mindset that — no matter what happens — you will stick to your principles and goals. Success in leadership comes from developing and perfecting persistence and determination.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

In rare cases this happens early in life; however, with planning and effort anyone can make it happen during the second half of their life. In his book HALFTIME: Moving from Success to Significance , author Bob Buford explores three stages of life: The first half: On average, the first 40 years of your life.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

He discusses succession planning in detail and provides structure and practice for reducing the risks of leadership failures and ensuring that new executives have the abilities, personalities and energy to match the business needs of the organization.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Both positions need to have the same sense of vision, drive, and planning, in order to make their teams survive and thrive. To be a strong leader, you need to show an unshakeable work ethic. You set the bar of potential through your own work ethic, but you also have to shore up your defenses and patch up any weaknesses.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. Mistakes, niche orientation and lack of planning lead businesses to failure. Strategic planning, how-to instructions.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. We use our focus to design, plan and implement sustainable marketing strategies proven to compel others to WANT to buy. Sinek makes a case that it’s all about the messaging.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2009

This situation lends itself to planning and preparation. Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | greatness , hard work , Juma Ikanga , planning , preparation , success , Vince Lombardi , winning « Leadership and gratitude Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Plans are in writing to address inventories and reducing surplus. Instill discipline.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

Quite often much emphasis is placed on designing and developing products, and the actual launch goes unplanned (or under-planned) until it’s too late. What problems have you faced when trying to launch a new product?

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2009

Challenge status quo thinking with a sharper, fresher perspective, a better strategy, or a clearer game plan for your market to follow. Just be sure to summarize, compare, interpret, and analyze this information so that people can appreciate and act on it. Continually add to your brand equity by doing more, caring more, contributing more.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 6, 2009

Both Mike and I have had the pleasure of leading and participating in a number of Product Camps and hope you will plan on attending one soon. In the future, you will not want someone to walk up to you and say, “Why didn’t I see you at the Product Camp?

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Fortunately everything came together as planned. The day was picture perfect and the race went as planned. The marathon runner Juma Ikanga said after winning the New York Marathon: “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare.&# I knew I had to prepare well if I were going to ‘win’ my race (i.e.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 26, 2009

We had the flights, the hotels (yes, plural…I’ll come back to that) and six days of fun planned at Universal Studios and several other theme parks. Finally, when my wife called Universal Studios to tell them about our change in plans, they were very accommodating.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 8, 2009

You plan what you are going to do, work at it and when it’s finished you move on to the next project. Some employees feel nervous about keeping their jobs. If you work yourself out of the current job, what will you do? The idea is to work effectively and close the loop on what you are doing.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Imagine you’re sitting in a product planning meeting with your favorite product team. Product management and its leadership have to be vigilant and plan for the ambush of Flying Monkeys. Posted on May 5, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin Today’s post comes from Jim Holland. Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

My experiences this year with my wife’s Kindergarten class have given me some great insights into how leaders can assemble or build teams by learning each personality, assessing specific needs, creating a plan to teach and share and building others by involving the strengths of the team to accomplish the goal.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. How well do you know your employees’ skills, work ethic, and willingness to embrace change? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Nurture leaders at all levels. Improve communication at all levels.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning. The quality audit by objective outside communications counsel can also examine the production, marketing and strategic planning functions. Faster innovation. They will conduct communications audits and strategic planning. Customer retention. Higher sales.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Include a press release approach both to business planning and communication. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Therefore, because everyone can get discouraged, plan for downtimes to ease their sting. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Now the Eurozone’s largest bank, it has plans to further establish its presence in the U.K., Santander has also been innovative when it comes to social media and mobile campaigns. Santander has also done a good job at leveraging its promising position, by embarking on a number of aggressive acquisitions since 2008. and Latin America.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Consider the following examples: In 2007-2008, a former Credit Suisse Group AG trader committed wire fraud and manipulated the books on mortgage-backed securities to enhance performance and boost year-end bonuses. The company plans to spend an additional $4 billion on compliance and recruit an extra 5,000 employees.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Study Up – Make sure you take the time to study the details of your business or project plan for the year ahead. Put The Right Team On The Field - Take stock of your team and their strengths and weaknesses, and ask a few hard questions: Is everyone committed to the new year and the new plan? THEN , dive in. Fantastic post.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning. I advocated a balanced approach toward planning, visioning and the Big Picture. Never mind planning for tomorrow… we’ll just deal with problems as they occur.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 17, 2009

If you compare the skill and precision of crop dusting to market sensing techniques, shouldn’t product management employ similar planning, preparation, techniques and proper ground support before taking off? Market sensing plans and preparation are only complete once you’ve had a safe landing with your research and credibility intact.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. Essentially, tactical performance is how well you stick to your plan, and adaptive performance is how well you diverge from your plan. Every high performer needs both.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

A culture by design has a bedrock of carefully selected company-wide values that motivates employees, delights customers, serves their communities and sparks innovation and creativity. Two of Wells Fargo’s key values are “ethics” and “what’s right for their customers”. How can a company with those supposed ethics commit such an act?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

(Because Jamie Dimon always gets bent out of shape when people tar all bankers with the same brush, it should be noted that JP Morgan Chase and a few other institutions were improving credit quality and building up capital before 2007. It drives hard work, innovation, and the success of the capitalist system. There's a lesson here.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth. Culture and Mission. Philosophy.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Going ‘outside the box’ to shift perceptions enables any company to think, plan and operate in productive new ways. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Professional innovation. Ethics and integrity. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future. These are the ingredients that make a legend: Significant business contributions. Courage and leadership.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. This free application creator is an asset for any individual or business looking to communicate and innovate with the latest trend in technology. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

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